Solar Imaging Session - August 5, 2011

As expected, the clear sky that I got yesterday was just short lived and today is another cloudy sky :( I wasn't able to do much solar work but just toyed around with my Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 coupled with a Canon EF 1.4x II Extender on a Canon EOS 500D DSLR on tripod.

I had a hard time focusing and centering the Sun because the Sun at around 12:30pm Philippine Standard Time was almost overhead, the worst situation to image the Sun whether whole disk or high resolution. Nevertheless, I was able to get a few shots through passing clouds and the solar image can be viewed below: